Kathleen Rooney

A founding editor of Rose Metal Press and a founding member of Poems While You Wait, Kathleen Rooney is the co-editor of Rene Magritte: Selected Writings (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), and her second novel, Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, was published by St. Martin’s Press in January 2017. Her novel-in-poems, Robinson Alone, based on the life and work of the poet and mysterious disapearee, Weldon Kees, came out with Gold Wake Press in 2012. Follow @kathleenmrooney.